Sources for Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self

Most of the following material can be found in Geoffrey Sanborn’s article, “The Wind of Words:  Plagiarism and Intertextuality in Of One Blood” published in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2015, pp 67-87.   We wish to thank Geoffrey Sanborn and J19 for their permission to reprint this material.

Chapter 1

a phrase of mere dismissal (James 361): 16 words
no one could fail to notice the vast breadth (F. Crawford 710–11): 32 words
lips though even and narrow (F. Crawford 36): 31 words
eyes, deep and earnest—terribly earnest (Campbell 44): 15 words
distinctive entities, grouped (Mitchell 861): 12 words
God and the devil, suggested (F. Crawford 713): 20 words
vast scheme of compensation (Britten 247): 15 words

Chapter 2

under the spur of the excitement (Brown, My Southern Home, 214): 42 words
stealing, rising, swelling, gathering (Quiller-Couch 255-56): 58 words

Chapter 3

enacted the dark deeds that (“Haunted House” 443): 23 words
who begged permission to speak through (“Haunted House” 448): 51 words
only for those who have a mental affinity (James 362): 12 words

Chapter 4
The most marvellous thing to watch (Thornton 97): 113 words
restored consciousness to dogs and cats (“Discovers” 9): 175
that inborn dignity which repels the shafts (Britten 234–35): 40 words

Chapter 5

The world scarcely estimates the service (Britten 134): 48 words
wonder at the course of other men’s lives (Britten 50): 80 words
movement of her bosom betrayed breath (“Transfigured” 231): 25 words
much clearly, much dimly (“Transfigured” 232): 14 words
yawned, rubbed her eyes (“Transfigured” 232): 16 words
feeling the glamour of her presence (“Alixe” 726): 50 words

Chapter 6
irony and sharp jesting (James 366): 22 words

Chapter 7

Musical girls, generally with gold (I. Crawford 290): 139 words
interrupted him, shaking his head (Gaboriau 69-70): 47 words
like all other men. Passion does not (Gaboriau 73): 34 words
overcome—the ocean and thousands of miles (Gaboriau 195): 29 words
intrust her to you as I would intrust her (Gaboriau 207–10): 78 words

Chapter 8

so evident, that none disputed (Gaboriau 421): 22 words
“You must not be unhappy, dear” (Bridges 738): 222 words
Two men were sitting in the billiard-room (“Haunted Voice” 670–71): 643 words

Chapter 9
is so good to you about letters (Bridges 738–39): 351 words
a pale and lovely woman. She neither looked (Britten 199–200): 105 words

Chapter 10

all those ominous voices which rise (Gaboriau 394-95): 54 words
affecting a certain air of indifference (Gaboriau 395-96): 39 words
landscape strange in form (Gaboriau 399): 17 words
ripples that fret the burnished (Jacassy 37–38): 220 words
offering him a telescope (Gaboriau 400): 40 words
discern the dress of his beloved (Gaboriau 402): 33 words
when a horde of dirty rascals (Jacassy 39): 113 words
attacked by many illustrious explorers (Jacassy 42): 76 words
barbaric state, still virgin of improvements (Jacassy 41): 32 words
Mohammedanism, already twelve centuries old (Jacassy 42): 52 words
seated on the floor around a well-spread tray (Bliss 402): 42 words
tall, straight, with clear brown eyes (Bliss 413–14): 43 words
the most exquisite European airs (Hoskins 26): 66 words
the Great Desert, here an elevated plateau (“Lost” 365): 73 words
strolled into the royal ruin, stumbling (Ruthven 110–14): 804 words

Chapter 11

entrepot of trade between the North (Brown, Rising Son, 44): 21 words
speculation has exhausted itself (Brown, Rising Son, 37): 20 words
a dim shadow fell across the tent door (Britten 174–75): 218 words
repeated, clear, distinct, and close (Britten 178): 17 words
sat up in bed, wide awake now and staring (Quiller-Couch 17–21): 155 words
he cried. Some terrible event (Britten 178): 11 words
several ineffectual attempts to concentrate (Britten 178): 22 words
statuesque and rigid beneath the magnetic spell (Britten 183): 46 words

Chapter 12

the loneliness made him shiver (Kipling and Balestier 63-64) 52 words
thrust his nose into twelve inches (Kipling and Balestier 193): 18 words
this solid block of loneliness (Kipling and Balestier 196): 12 words
Astaboras unites its stream with the Nile (Hoskins 66): 26 words
Meroe was the queenly city (Brown, Rising Son, 44): 12 words
entreat to consider well the perils (Quiller-Couch 111-12): 28 words
whose beauty excels all the jewels (Quiller-Couch 111-12): 33 words
aged priest, whose bones lie (Quiller-Couch 113): 26 words
Bright fell the moonlight on (Haggard): 23 words
but it was otherwise in the first (Rawlinson 75): 47 words
illustrious throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa (T.R. 7): 27 words
energy of mind which made their country (Thalheimer 16): 48 words
subjugated the whole of Upper Egypt (T.R. 8): 18 words
traditions with respect to Memnon (Rawlinson 1:48): 17 words
Armenian Geography applies the name (Rawlinson 1:50–52): 284 words

Chapter 13

river, commanding an extensive view of the plain (Hoskins 69-71): 42 words
with what may be called a keystone (Hoskins 73–74): 52 words
strongly marked by corpulency (Hoskins 80–83): 247 words
degraded into a species of talking baboons (Griffin 19–20): 25 words
proceeded to harangue his companions, lugging in (Robinson 91): 39 words
two enormous silver serpents, each (Robinson 94): 147 words
awe-inspiring Pyramids throwing shadows (Robinson 91): 36 words
looked at him walking restlessly up and down (Gaboriau 421-22): 44 words

Chapter 14

the point of anguish was passed (Quiller-Couch 299): 41 words
the words whispered appealingly, invitingly (Quiller-Couch 301): 24 words
The white orb of the moon was high (Quiller-Couch 300): 42 words
some beast of the night plunged (Kipling and Balestier 667-68): 25 words
The loom of the night lifted (Kipling and Balestier 669): 57 words
the ledge ran only (Kipling and Balestier 669-70): 46 words
flickering drunkenly in the gloom (Kipling and Balestier 670): 21 words
of pure physical terror (Kipling and Balestier 671, 670): 33 words
mental, cannot last long (Corelli 83): 23 words
his senses all gave (Corelli 86): 22 words
light poured in through rose-coloured (Corelli 99): 14 words
deep and delicate hues (Corelli 105): 34 words

Chapter 15

doors he ushered him (Corelli 104): 41 words
through a broad alley, lined (Corelli 98-99): 42 words
flitted across his brain like (Corelli 94): 11 words
against the dense blue of the sky (Corelli 88): 10 words
urged forward by the general rush (Corelli 89): 13 words
pile of marvellously delicate architecture (Corelli 314): 18 words
granite of mingled red and black (Robinson 91): 38 words
with flowers the doors stood (Corelli 314): 15 words
diamond but dulling all (Kipling and Balestier 892): 31 words
lights twinkled everywhere—there was (Corelli 314): 22 words
a blazing arch raised (Corelli 126): 16 words
The dimmest sea-cave below thee (Bulwer-Lytton 162–63): 51 words
son of a fallen dynasty (Bulwer-Lytton 132): 10 words
a scourge in the hand of an offended God (Tucker 62): 32 words
sixty miles round, of prodigious height (Tucker 64–65): 169 words
who will assume the bays (Bulwer-Lytton 190-91): 99 words
with the reach of past ages (Bulwer-Lytton 146): 19 words
weak finds not ruth (Tucker 62-63): 69 words
who will assume the bays (Bulwer-Lytton 190-91): 17 words

Chapter 16

of exquisite note and plumage (Coombs 130–33): 336 words
seemingly endless colonnades they passed (Corelli 130): 43 words
loveliness was absolutely and ideally (Corelli 319): 13 words
retired modestly into the background (Corelli 240-21): 22 words
in the azure light and (Corelli 240-41): 19 words
deep draught of the proffered (Corelli 242): 55 words

Chapter 17

still powerful to a degree undreamed (Corelli 51): 13 words
uttered an exclamation of incredulous amazement (Corelli 50): 37 words
personality that continues to live (Corelli 14): 18 words
ignorance if he denies (Corelli 24): 13 words
nearly overpowered with the anticipation (Cook 451): 94 words
film of sediment instantly formed (Cook 451-52): 166 words

Chapter 18

laid bare a beautifully worked marble wall (Waldstein 421–22): 112 words
lash of Osiris, and in the other (Hoskins 77): 22 words
At the extremity of each portico (Hoskins 82): 22 words
deep gutters, smoother than ice (Kipling and Balestier 669): 24 words
red, violet, orange, green and deepest crimson (Quiller-Couch 355): 91 words
became aware of pale emerald eyes (Kipling and Balestier 670): 13 words

Chapter 19

ears holloes in ocean’s roar or booms (Britten 207): 30 words
showed only as a crimson ball (Quiller-Couch 344): 12 words

Chapter 20

Sick at heart, bending beneath the blight (Britten 195): 13 words
It would be desecration to call the passion (Britten 196–97): 28 words
gazing for some moments in perfect silence (Britten 198–201) 204 words
she quitted it, closed up (Britten 202): 36 words
made so by fraud, deceit (Britten 204–9): 178 words
her husband’s agency in all this woe (Britten 210): 24 words

Chapter 21

deathly white, and spread out (Quiller-Couch 283): 10 words
look of utter horror that froze (Quiller-Couch 284): 11 words
as though buffeted in the face (Quiller-Couch 285): 41 words

Chapter 22

told him she was ill, not alarmingly so (Britten 215–17): 121 words
The silent stars and gracious moon (Britten 211–15): 549 words

Chapter 23

cold, gray morning; the dawn of such a day (Britten 215–19): 420 words
printed with the fleecy words of glory (Britten 220–26): 681 words

Chapter 24

mile on mile, the scorching midday sun (Britten 226–29): 299 words
only his eyes, those strange deep eyes (de Tully 532-33): 148 words

Appendix: Bibliography of Sources for Of One Blood

“Alixe.” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly 16 (1883): 722-30. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Bliss, Frederick Jones. “Tadmor in the Wilderness.” Scribner’s Magazine 7 (1890): 400-17. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Bridges, Madeline S. “Walter Langdon’s Wife.” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly 16 (1883): 738-42. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Britten, Emma Hardinge. The Wildfire Club. Boston: Berry, Colby, 1861. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Brown, William Wells. My Southern Home. Boston: A. G. Brown, 1880. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

—. The Rising Son. Boston: A. G. Brown, 1874. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward. The Last Days of Pompeii. Paris: Baudry, 1834. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Campbell, Charles H. “The Little Waif.” Ballou’s Magazine 50 (1879): 44-52. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Cook, William Wallace. “The Mystic Picture,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly 31 (1891): 449-52. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Coombs, John Hartley, ed. Dr. Livingstone’s 17 Years’ Exploration and Adventure in the Wilds of Africa. Philadelphia: Lloyd, 1857. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Corelli, Marie. Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self. London: Bentley, 1890. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Crawford, F. Marion. “Casa Braccio.” Century Illustrated Magazine 49 (1894-95): 31-48, 702-16. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Crawford, Isabella V. “A Five-O’Clock Tea.” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly 17 (1884): 287-91. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

de Tully, George. “The Turkish Telegraph.” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly 36 (November 1893): 529-34. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

“Discovers the Secret of Life.” Boston Daily Globe, 29 September 1902: 9. ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Web. 21 January 2019.

Gaboriau, Emile. The Clique of Gold. New York: Scribner’s, 1900. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Griffin, Edward Dorr. A Plea for Africa. New York: Gould, 1817. Slavery and Anti-Slavery. Web. 21 January 2019.

Haggard, H. Rider. She: A History of Adventure. London: Longman, 1887. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

“The Haunted House at Watertown.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 35 (September 1867): 443-50. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

“The Haunted Voice.” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly 18 (1884): 670-74. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Hoskins, George A. Travels in Ethiopia, Above the Second Cataract of the Nile. London: Longman, 1835. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Jacassy, A. F. “Tripoli of Barbary.” Scribner’s Magazine 7 (1890): 37-52. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

James, William. “The Hidden Self,” Scribner’s Magazine 7 (1890), 361-73. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Kipling, Rudyard and Wolcott Balestier. “The Naulahka.” Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine 43 (1892): 186-97, 666-78, 890-904. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

“Lost in Sahara.” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly 17 (1884): 365-66. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Mitchell, S. Weir. “Characteristics.” Century Illustrated Magazine 43 (April 1892): 859-68. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas. Dead Man’s Rock: A Romance. London: Cassell, 1887. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Rawlinson, George. The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World. 3 vols. London: Murray, 1862. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Robinson, N. “The Colossal Statues of Egypt and Asia.” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly 17 (1884): 90-95. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Ruthven, Noel. “In the Claws; Or, a Struggle for Dear Life.” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly 17 (1884): 110-14. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Thalheimer, Mary Elsie. A Manual of Ancient History New York: Van Antwerp, Bragg, 1872. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Thornton, William. Origin, Purpose, and Destiny of Man, or Philosophy of the Three Ethers. Boston: Thornton, 1891. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

T. R., “Observations on the Early History of the Negro Race,” African Repository 1 (1825): 7-12. ProQuest. Web. 21 January 2019.

“The Transfigured.” Southern Literary Messenger 5 (April 1839): 225-54. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Tucker, Charlotte Maria. Exiles in Babylon; or, Children of the Light. London: Nelson and Sons, 1864. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

Waldstein, Charles. “The Finding of the Tomb of Aristotle.” Century Illustrated Magazine 44 (1892): 414-26. Google Books. Web. 21 January 2019.

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